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The Latest Breaking News from the Pacific Ocean

What this year's El Niño means for wheat and global food supply

The World Meteorological Organization has declared the onset of the first El Niño event in seven years. It estimates 90% probability the climatic phenomenon, involving an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean, will develop through 2023, and be of moderate strength.

The Conversation

What are El Niño and La Niña and how do they affect Earth's weather?

El Niño and La Niña significantly impact Earth's weather patterns. We explore the events in more detail here and take a look at how they impact Earth's weather.

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Removing dams from the Klamath River is a step toward justice for Native Americans in Northern California

The Klamath River runs over 250 miles (400 kilometers) from southern Oregon to the Pacific Ocean in Northern California. It flows through the steep, rugged Klamath Mountains, past slopes of redwood, fir, tanoak and madrone, and along pebbled beaches where willows shade the river’s edge. Closer to its mouth at…

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Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship

A physicist from Harvard University has recovered 50 spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship

The Hindu

'Anomalous' metal spheres unlikely to be alien technology, despite Harvard scientist's claim

A prominent extraterrestrial-hunting scientist thinks that more than 50 tiny, metal spheres pulled from the Pacific Ocean might be the work of intelligent aliens. Others are skeptical.

LiveScience

Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here's what to make of it

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

The Conversation

South Koreal endorses Fukushima wastewater release, China to ban Japan food imports

South Korea’s government on Friday formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean as it tried to calm people’s fears about food contamination.

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U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach: The meteoric rise of Stanford prodigy Rose Zhang

It was at Pebble Beach, the storied golf course on the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean, that 20-year-old Rose Zhang set the women’s course record with a nine-under-par 63 last fall.

Tribune News Service

Heat Wave Sweeps West, Pacific Northwest Gets Temporary Relief

Cool air from the Pacific Ocean will bring relief to parts of the west, but heat will persist in the Southwest.

Zenger

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

The Independent UK

Japan may start controversial Fukushima water release next month

Plan to release treated water into the Pacific Ocean over several decades secured IAEA approval on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says Japan can release nuclear waste water into the ocean

The International Atomic Energy Agency has approved a plan by Japan's government to dump nuclear waste water from the destroyed Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean.

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

The Independent UK

Sun blasts out powerful X-class solar flare causing radio blackouts on Earth (video)

The giant sunspot AR3354 blasted out an X-class solar flare on Sunday, July 2, ionizing Earth's atmosphere and causing a shortwave radio blackout over the U.S. and the Pacific Ocean.

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

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Japan set to pour Fukushima water into Pacific, irking China

Japan is set to win approval to discharge more than a million cubic meters of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the Pacific Ocean, a contentious plan that’s soured ties with neighbors including China.

LiveScience

Do the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean mix?

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

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UN nuclear agency chief to visit Fukushima plant to see final preparations for release of wastewater

The chief of the U.N. nuclear agency will visit Japan next week to meet with officials and see final preparations for the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

The Conversation

El Niño could push global warming past 1.5℃ – but what is it and how does it affect the weather in Europe?

Scientists have warned that 2024 could mark the year when global warming exceeds 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. They attribute these predictions, at least in part, to the emergence of an El Niño event.

The Independent UK

Japan regulators begin final safety check before releasing treated Fukushima wastewater into sea

Japanese regulators are making the final inspection before treated radioactive wastewater is released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean

Golf Monthly

The Jurassic Park Of Golf? The World's Best Holes You Didn’t Know About

Monty McPhee Travelled to Mexico where he played the Jurassic Park of golf courses at El Tamarindo

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El Niño 2023 is officially here and could bring record temperatures, floods, droughts and wildfires

The climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean can affect weather around the world and contribute to extreme weather events

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